Arrice Hayden Taylor
Arrice Hayden Taylor was born on March 30, 1937 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was the son of William Hayden Taylor and Ressie Pauline Noel, both natives of Trigg County. He had three brothers, Wallace Wade Taylor, William Dorris Taylor and Dale Taylor.
On September 24, 1955, he married Johnnie Thomas, the daughter of John Herbert Thomas and Willie D. Meador. Johnnie was born on December 9, 1935 in Trigg County. Johnnie worked for many years with the Social Security Administration in Hopkinsville, Kentucky as well as the Pennyrile Area Development District. Arrice and Johnnie were the parents of two daughters, Melanie Grace Taylor born in 1959 and Elizabeth Lynn Taylor born in 1961.
Beginning in 1959 Arrice began serving as a minister and evangelist in the Baptist Church. He served as pastor of Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Princeton, Kentucky, Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, Cedar Bluff Baptist Church also in Princeton as well as the Cerulean Baptist Church and Canton Baptist Church, both in Trigg County. The last sixteen years of his life he served as pastor of the Pugh Flat Baptist Church in Trigg County.
Brother Arrice was widely known for his musical talents. In March 1962, he organized the Jubilee Quartet whose original group include Bro. Arrice, his wife Johnnie, Gerald Dan Turner and Grace Thomas with Betty Killebrew as pianist. Later he formed another quartet knows as the LandMark Quartet consisting of Bro. Arrice, Jerry and Dianne Ford and Cloyd Kneg with Clay King as the pianist. The quartets gained widespread popularity throughout western Kentucky and in Tennessee and a number of albums were recorded by the group. Bro. Arrice served for 31 years as the master of ceremonies on a Sunday morning program known as the Jubilee Quartet Time on a local Hopkinsville radio station. His wife, Johnnie, assisted him on-air in the weekly radio show. Johnnie was also a well-known pianist who was called upon many times by families to play the funeral of a loved one as well as playing in various nursing homes.
In addition to serving as a minister, Bro. Arrice worked in the construction business since the 1950s and was president of the local carpenters’ union in Hopkinsville.
Bro, Arrice died on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky as a result of injuries sustained in an accidental fall while working on the roof of his home. At his funeral, selections from his Jubilee Quartet and LandMark Quartet music was played by a large choir comprised of his fellow singers and his musical friends sang some of his favorite old-time hymns. He was buried in the Green Hill Memorial Gardens in Hopkinsville. His wife, Johnnie, died on September 28, 2021 and was buried next to him.
Arrice and Johnnie Taylor grave site
Arrice and Johnnie Thomas Taylor
LINEAGE: (Arrice Hayden Taylor was the husband of Johnnie Thomas. Johnnie was the daughter of John Herbert and Willie D. Meador Thomas, granddaughter of George Walton and Margaret Thomas Thomas and great-granddaughter of Rufus King and Alvie Adeline Dunn Thomas and Carroll and Margaret Jane Reid Thomas. Rufus was the fifth child of Perry and Elizabeth Bridges Thomas. Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas. Elizabeth was the sixth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges. Carroll was the second child of James, Jr. and Margaret Ethridge Thomas. James Jr. was the sixth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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